This evening I experienced one of those strange moments in which I felt myself at the center of a tuning of events that was both remarkable for its strangeness and completely meaningless.
I was watching Family Guy on TBS this evening. The episode was Jungle Love. From the TBS episode guide:
Chris' fear of his first experiences in high school lead him to join the Peace Corps where he is assigned to a remote island tribe. Lois sends Peter out to job hunt and he lands a dream job at Pawtucket Brewery. Stewie goes on a quest to punish Will Ferrell for the remake of BEWITCHED.
Two things were weird about this episode (the first maybe not so wierd but we'll see). The first (not chronologically) was that the Griffins, at the end of the episode, escapes from the "remote island" in a replay of the Raiders of the Lost Ark jungle escape sequence. Ok, maybe not so wierd right? It's not as if a sequel to that film isn't playing in every theater right now, as we speak. Fine.
However, in this same episode, Stewie has a sequence pulled out of Tootsie. Sydney Pollack who both directed and co-starred in Tootsie (including in part of the sequence aped in the episode) died yesterday but, due to the holiday, the news was only widely reported today. Now that's weird.
And, lest I forget, RIP Mr. Pollack, you'll be missed.
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